Competence Quotes - Page 2

To know one's own limitations is the hallmark of competence.

My finger picking is sort of a cross between Pete Seeger, Earl Scruggs, and total incompetence.

A bad workman quarrels with the man who calls him that.

Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

Carelessness with details sinks more careers than anyone will admit.

Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.

It is within your competence to think and thus to get bound or to cease thinking and thus be free.

Train yourself: It is not by accident an artist becomes a good painter.

One of the chief features of incompetence was an inability to see it in oneself.

Never underestimate the incompetence of government.

Seeming failure is not of the law of satyagrahabut of incompetence of the satyagrahi by whatever cause induced.

A bad artist almost always tries to conceal his incompetence by whooping up a new formula.

Whenever you're faced with an explanation of what's going on in Washington, the choice between incompetence and conspiracy, always choose incompetence.

Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence

Competence is a great creator of confidence.

The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it.

In most hierarchies, supercompetence is more objectionable than incompetence.

Let us be thankful for health and competence, and, above all, for a quiet conscience.

Writing is the only trade I know of in which sniveling confessions of extreme incompetence are taken as credentials probative of powers to astound the multitude.

Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence.

Maturity is largely about acquiring the confidence and the competence to make your own decisions.

Incompetence, in my books, is the failure of the critical faculties to interfere constructively with the natural flow.

Incompetence is a double-edged banana.

It happens; incompetence is rewarded more often than not.

There are, it is true, at present no great prizes in literature such as are offered by the learned professions, but there are quite as many small ones - competences; while, on the other hand, it is not so much of a lottery.